The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-27
An Attempt to Burn Thirty Italians
While Asleep.
The Doors Barricaded to Keep the In.
mates from Escaping.
A Hot Headed Prohibltionist Whipped
and Forced to March.
Three Victims Buried Under Falling
Walls at Corlnth.

IN a Du1lQlnR IN Cn0 TOWNSHIP OF Paris
Kent county, was frustrated last night
by the timely warning of one who
awoke and found the building in
flames. The building was one uesd by
an Italian named Santo Garfalo, who
was keeping a sort of store with rooms
above for sleeping Italians at work on
south of the city. There has been
hard feelings existing between this
crew and crew of fourteen
| at work near Brand who
lived in the city. About 10
o'clock last night an unknown man
crept into a vacant room and set fire
to the house and then joined a party
on the outside who barricaded the
doors and used cry effort to keep the
inmates from escaping. They how
ever managed to get out, many of them
leaving all their clothing. Efforts will
be made to find the guilty ones and
| punish them. 1t was narrow escape
for all as they had retired early and
| were sound asleep when the alarm was
| made.
A PROHIBITONIST'S HARD LUCK.
| HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Oct. 25.-W.
H. Reynolds, the youthful editor of a
bi-weekly prohibition paper called the
Sun which was established here several
weeks ago, has disappeared. Until
about September 1st Reynolds was a
resident of Topeka, Kansas, and repre-
scented himself as city editor of the
Times of that city. He also claimed to
be a nephew of the late Robert TOombs
of Georgia. Upon arriving at this
place he rented desk room in the Office
| of the South, where he set up his print
| ing establishment and issued a small
sheet of which he was editor, compOs-
| itor and printer. He made bitter at
tack upon all persons in town engaged
in the liquor traffic and their support
ers and after two issues of the
paper two saloon keepers assaulted
Reynolds and beat him severely. His
assailants were arrested and their trial
set for Monday of last week. but ON
the previous night Reynolds
mysteriously disappeared. A letter
was received by Sheriff Miller dated
Ware Hill, October 20, in which the
writer said that he had seen Reynolds
passing through that place on foot with
no baggage. Inquiry at Reynolds,
| boarding house ELECTED the fact that
| he had in conversation with several
persons expressed fears that he would
be killed and said that he had received
orders to leave town. During the night
of his disappearance the boarders heard
several pistol shots near the house and
employees of his printing Office said
they knew that Reynolds life had been
threatened. There was no indebtedness
| that they knew of and he had said that
nothing but death would stop the
publication of his paper.
''BLINKY" MORGAN BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 24.-Court did
not convene at Ravenna to-day until
this afternoon. During the forenoon
several absurd rumors were put in
circulation. One was to the etfect
| that a call had been made on the Gov
ernor for company of militia to guard
the Jail and Court House and prevent
a rescue of 'tBlinky" Morgan.
mysterious letter sent to "Blinky," and
which was intercepted by the police.
1t promised help to the prisoner.
Nearly every lady regarded it as the
work of a crank, but there is no doubt
but that there is much apprehension
in the minds of the people of Ravenna.
The examinations of witnesses for the
defense began at the opening of court
| to-day. The first called was DR.. w.
White. of Ravenna, who came to
| Cleveland with Captain Roehn after the
tragedy. He was called to impeach
| the captains testimony as to the iden-
| tity of his assailant on the train as
Morgan. The Doctor said that Captain
Roehn told him while on the way to
Cleveland that he could not remember
what he was thinking about just before
the assault, but he gave the Doctor q
description of his assailant as he could
remember him at that time.
The object of the defense
was to show that a person dazed by a
blow on the head such as Captain
] Roehn received before the struggle on
| the train could not remember clearly
what happened. Bernard Kinney, the
l Il, -s,k
| was next called. He boarded the train
on which Hulligan and ROehn were
assaulted, and witnessed the fight.
| He saw the man with whom Captain
Roehn was struggling, but could not
| identify him in the person of Morgan.
| He thought Morgan was lighter, but
was not positive about anything. The
court then adjourned until tomorrow
morning.
REPoRTED RETURN OF LUELLA MOB
| BIT.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. A.-The
| Journal Delphi correspondent reports
| that that town is intensely excited over
a report that Luella Mobbitt, for whose
supposed murder Amer Green was
lynched on Saturday morning, had ar
rived there. Careful inquiry revealed
young woman heavily yelled alighted
| from an east bound Wabash train,
and going to the baggag room asked
| if her trunk had arrived, stating that
she had checked it when she took the
train at Fort Worth, Tex. The trunk
had not arrived and she left
| the station. and has not since
been seen. The MobbittS and their
neighbors deny that any woman an
sWerins her description had been seen
by anyone in their vicinity within the
last three days, and a search of the
town failed to reveal any clue. The
trunk arrived a few hours after her
disappearance. 1t is heavily roped
and securely locked, and there are
scores of people who would pay almost
any sum could they lift the lid and as
this woman and her trunk have set ru-
mors of all kinds afioat, and the town
is full of people anxiously awaiting de-
velopments-
A BAREFACED LIE.
FIT. SMITH, Ark, Oct. 24.-The ne
ported fight between vigilants and out
laws near WeWaka, Indian Territory
last Thursday, proves to be absolutely
: false. Ex-Chief Bushyhead, of the
{ Cherokee Nation, says no such persons
as those named in the dispatches eVeI
lived in the Cherokee Nation. and thu
persons who left WeWaka last Satur
/ day say Trainer. the alleged leader o.
2 the outlaws, was living their quietly
, and that no fight had taken place
: Trouble is expected in the Cherokee,
Nation, however, over the late election
3 for Chief and efforts are being made b.
: the weaker party to get United State
> troops there, and the impression i
Q being made that trouble exists. Every
d thing was quiet in the territory at las
g accounts, but serious political trOubl
s is brewing, and q conflict may occur a
8 Tahlequah, the capital of the CherC
$ kee Nation when the National Coun
o ellis meets, two weeks hence, and th
:, result of the election is officially dc
: clared.
+ WILL GIVE THEM A WARM RECEPTION
vi INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2.-The Joul
nails Peru correspondents Telegram